Bottle



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y H. FLANDERS.

BOTTLE. No. 500,040. Patented Sept. 14,1807.

` lnvener www Darren' STATES llaTnNT @Trina HERBERT FLANDERS, OF MANCHESTER, NEV IIAMFSHIRE.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,040, dated September 14, 1897..

Application tiled November 14,1896. Serial No. 612,050. (No model.)

T0 (LIZ who/1t it may concern.- i

Be it known that I, HERBERT FLANDERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention rela-tes to bottles designed for use by manufacturers o'f bottled goods, the object being to provide a bottle which cannot be refilled.

It is a common practice among a certain class of dealers to refill bottles having labels of Well-known manufacturers with a spurious or inferior quality of goods; and this invention consists, broadly, in providing the neck of a bottle With a conical cup or valve and a conical seat upon which said valve may rest and with means for raising the valve for fill ing the bottle.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to the following specification and claims, and to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, of Which- Figure l is a vertical section showing the upper port-ion of a bottle and its neck embodying my improved construction, Figs. 2 and 3 being sectional details.

Similar reference-letters denote corresponding parts in all the views.

A represents the upper portion of a bottle, and B is its neck.

To carry my invention into effect, I reduce the interior of the neck so as to form a smallV ameter, thus affording ready means for grind-` ing the conical seatb, if required, and upon this seat rests a conicalcup or valve D, upon which is provided an eye d for attaching a Wire E, by which it may be raised. In order to prevent the removal of said valve D, I provide an interior bushing@ for the neck B, having at its bottom a hollen7 projection c of smaller diameter and greater length than is the valve D, and having in its side perforationsc', through which liquid may pass, and with a perforation c2 in its bottom for the passage of a wire E, which attaches to the eye d of the valve D and enables the latter io be held up from the conical seat b for the purpose of filling the bottle.

After the neck with its conical seat for the valve has been formed the bushing C, through which the Wire E has previously been passed and connected to the valve D, as shown, is then placed in position Within the neck and sealed therein, so as to form an inseparable part thereof.

The eye d of the valve is made very trail,

so as to be easily broken, and when it is desred to fill my improved bottle the Wire E is drawn upward until the valve comes in contact with the bottom of the hollow projection c of the bushing C, when the surplus of Wire isV bent down on the outside of the bushing or neck, thus sustaining the valve D in the position shown in full lines in Fig. l, leaving plenty of room for the liquid With Which the bottle is to be lilled to enter the same by passing through the perforations c into the valve or cup D, over the sides of which it [lows down upon the conical seat b and through the opening b of the neck B into the bottle. XVhen the bottle has been filled to the point desired, the operator pulls the Wire E, Which breaks the eye d of the valve or cup, permitting the valve to drop to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig'. l, and as no liquid can pass into the bottle except when the valve D is elevated, and as the only means of accomplishing this has been destroyed by breaking the eye CZ of the valve and removing the'wire E, the bottle can never be refilled, While its contents can be readily poured out either in small or large quantities. t

Having described my invention, what I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a bottle provided with an interior contracted portion the top of which is conical, a conical shell or valve Itting the conical portion of said neck provided in its bottom with a centrally-located eye, a bushing rigidly secured within said neck above said valvehaving a hollow projection at its bottom provided With apertures in its side and a small perforation in its bottom, and a wire vpassing through the latter and attached to the eye of said valve, Substantially for the purpose Set forth. 1o

In testimony whereof I aiifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HERBERT FLANDERS. \Vitnesses:

J. B. TI-IURsToN, GEO. II. VARREN. 

